Contents
Publisher's Preface
Autobiographical
George Eliot
Thomas Carlyle
John Ruskin
William E. Gladstone
J.M.W. Turner
Jonathan Swift
Walt Whitman
Victor Hugo
Wm. Wordsworth
William M. Thackeray
Charles Dickens
Oliver Goldsmith
William Shakespeare
Thomas A. Edison
Elbert Hubbard is dead, or should we say, has gone on
his last Little Journey to the Great Beyond. But the children of his fertile
brain still live and will continue to live and keep fresh the memory of their
illustrious forebear.
Fourteen years were consumed in the preparation of the
work that ranks today as Elbert Hubbard's masterpiece. In Eighteen Hundred
Ninety-four, the series of Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great was begun,
and once a month for fourteen years, without a break, one of these little
pilgrimages was given to the world. These little gems have been accepted as
classics and will live. In all there are one hundred eighty Little Journeys that
take us to the homes of the men and women who transformed the thought of their
time, changed the course of empire, and marked the destiny of civilization.
Through him, the ideas, the deeds, the achievements of these immortals have been
given to the living present and will be sent echoing down the centuries.
Hubbard's Little Journeys to the homes of these men and
women have not been equaled since Plutarch wrote his forty-six parallel lives of
the Greeks and Romans.
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